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Quick update: Florian Hahn has implemented a solution for permission handling with Django on non-relational databases. Django's own permission system unfortunately requires JOIN support and thus doesn't work. After his original announcement the code has been optimized, so a permission check can be done with just two database ...

Alex Gaynor has posted a final status update on his Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project which should bring official NoSQL support to Django. Basically, Django now has a working MongoDB backend (not to be confused with the MongoDB backend for Django-nonrel: django-mongodb-engine) and (after lots of skepticism) the ORM ...

This is the second post in our django-mediagenerator series. If you haven't read it already, please read the first post before continuing: django-mediagenerator: total asset management

What is Sass?

Great that you ask. :) Sass is a high-level language for generating CSS. What? You still write CSS by hand? "That ...

It was planned already very long to add some remaining features from gae-search to nonrel-search and since we stopped developing gae-search we decided to make some of the premium features open-source. So let's see what changed.

New Features

We basically changed two things in nonrel-search: first it's possible ...

We really weren't posting often enough recently. Now we'll make up for it with an advanced new asset manager called django-mediagenerator. Those of you who used app-engine-patch might still remember a media generator. This one is completely rewritten with a new backend-based architecture and muchos flexibility for the ...

Update (2019): If you're interested in programming languages, you should follow Waldemar's new AI-based, declarative programming language Ensody.

Hey, after a lot of work in the last few weeks I'm finally ready to introduce you to one of our latest projects called PyvaScript. It's a new scripting language for your ...

An annoying problem when trying to reuse an existing Django app is that some apps use TextField instead of CharField and still want to filter on that field. On App Engine TextField is not indexed and thus can't be filtered against. One app which has this problem is django-openid-auth ...

We've finished our App Engine Blobstore and MongoDB GridFS storage backends for Django. With these backends you can directly use FileField and ModelForm to easily handle file uploads in a portable way. Please make sure you take a look at the source code of our demo.

The App Engine ...